Will Smith is not coming back!
Warner Bros has finally found a way to extend its hit--Will Smith's last-man-on-Earth blockbuster I Am Legend into a possible new franchise.
The studio is currently working on a reboot that won't be starring the lead character Will Smith (who was seen dead in his last movie, I Am Legend) to do the sequels, which to saddened the fans. Smith is said to be "reluctant" to do follow-ups (Men in Black and Bad Boys nonetheless, it would seem), which is why he has also avoided Independence Day 2.
According to Deadline, Warner Bros. is "retrofitting" a spec script that the studio bought back in April from an unknown writer Gary Graham, who was working at the Apple store in midtown Manhattan when he posted his script on the Black List website and got the attention of CAA and manager Brooklyn Weaver. They hired him and sent his script out.
The story is titled A Garden at the End of the World - which was originally intended to be a science fiction take on the John Wayne film The Searchers.
But according to Deadline:
"When Graham was brought in to rewrite his script, the studio by then had talked to the I Am Legend producers and noted enough similarities to the themes and mythology of that film that they asked the scribe to consider a redraft to fit that property."
As of now, the fans are still looking forward to seeing another I Am Legend-like blockbuster movie from Warner Bros in the following years even without their lead, Will Smith. Apparently, the film or the said spin-off is expected to give a new storyline and attack from Graham's story, and a fresh faces including new lead stars, and a much vampire-look appearances (the original opponent of the story) than a zombie-like antagonists.
